After months of saying he would run for a second term and fundraising for the effort, Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett kicked off a multi-day, cross-state tour Wednesday to raise his profile with a year to go until election day.

Tom Wolf, a wealthy central Pennsylvania businessman and former state revenue secretary, said he is running for governor and vowed to put up at least $10 million of his own fortune in his campaign for the 2014 nomination.

The Republican incumbent appeared before a crowd of about 100 supporters at the Heinz History Center in Pittsburgh, his home base, with a theme of the governor who kept his 2010 campaign promise of more jobs and less taxes.

"We kept that promise, and today we are adding one more line: Promises kept," Corbett said during a 35-minute speech after Lt. Gov. Jim Cawley, Corbett's wife, Susan, and several others warmed up the crowd. "I tell you what I'm going to do."

Still, Corbett is formalizing his decision to run again at a time when even some party elders are questioning whether he can turn around lackluster polling numbers and erase the memory of verbal blunders and ideological fights, such as the tougher voter identification law and budget-balancing cuts to spending on public schools and universities.

"If you're looking for a politician or an elected official who takes the path of least resistance or allows the latest poll to drive decisions," Corbett said, "Then I'm not your candidate."

In fact, Pittsburgh teachers protested outside during the event Wednesday.

"It’s audacious he's coming back to Pittsburgh to talk about his re-election campaign after what he’s done to schools here in Pittsburgh and across the state," said Nina Esposito-Visgitis, president of the Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers.

After two-and-a-half years of governing as a conservative, Corbett is moving to the middle on transportation and health care policy issues.

On the campaign trail, Corbett will stress shrinking the size of government, instilling fiscal discipline, cutting taxes and improving the economy. To be sure, he has battled recession-wracked state government finances, public employee labor unions and spiking pension costs.

“Spoken like a politician whose numbers are below 50 percent. It makes sense he has to try to find a way to explain that away. He’s totally out of step," said Democratic National Committee chair Debbie Wasserman-Schultz. “What’s on voters’ front burners, Americans’ front burners, Pennsylvanians’ front burners, is job creation and education.”

Corbett took over in 2011 as the economy was bouncing back, if slowly, from the recession and enjoyed the benefits of a Legislature that is controlled by his fellow Republicans. After running as a corruption-busting attorney general in 2010, Corbett has run a relatively scandal-free administration while keeping a low profile and priding himself on making decisions that may not be popular, but ones he views as right.

3 Governor Tom Corbett chose Pittsburgh as his first stop to announce-- he wants the job for four more years! Action News Reporter Matt Belanger with the governor's pitch to voters-- and the pushback he's already getting. 3 Governor Tom Corbett!")GOVERNOR TOM CORBETT RETURNED TO THE STRIP DISTRICT TO ANNOUNCE HE'LL SEEK A SECOND TERM WITH A SPEECH THAT WAS PART "VICTORY LAP" 3 PART "DAMAGE CONTROL". 3 THE GOVERNOR, CONTROVERSIAL CHANGES TO EDUCATION FUNDING TEACHERS PROTESTED OUTSIDE OF HIS EVENT AT THE HEINZ HISTORY 3 CENTER. 3 THE SHALER DEFENDED HIS LOW JOB PERFORMANCE 3 CHAIR OF THE DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEE CONGRESSWOMAN DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ SAYS ...CORBETT'S MATCH THE MAJORITY OF PENNSYLVANIANS......LIKE HIS CONTINUED EFFORT TO OUTSOURCE MANAGEMENT OF THE PENNSYLVANIA LOTTERY 3 Governor Corbett says there are 141-thousand more jobs in the state compared to when he first took office. But at the same time, he's been unable to get lawmakers to send him a transportation funding plan. Live in the newsroom i'm matt belanger, channel 4 action news.